End of this week I will be heading to Las Vegas again for the 2015 edition of IT/Dev Connections. The event is taking place from the 14th to the 17th of September at the Aria Resort.
# 1 – Securely Delivering Traditional Windows File Server Home Folders to BYOD Devices.
Discover the most hidden and underestimated Windows Server 2012 R2 feature, called Work Folders. Work Folders lets you leverage your file server investment while simultaneously providing end users with anywhere access to their data, from their work PCs to their personal devices. In this session you'll learn about challenges for secure implementation and management not only with traditional home folders but also in the BYOD world. Discover how to deploy and manage Work Folders servers and clients, gain an understanding of how Work Folders operates end-to-end and integrates into your existing infrastructure, and learn how Work Folders takes advantage of capabilities such as multi-factor authentication, Workplace Join, and Selective Wipe to ensure that corporate data remains secure wherever it goes.
In today's world, your mobile workforce will most likely have expanded significantly. Managing your ever-expanding legion of mobile warriors and their arsenal of devices can be a challenging task. During this session we'll show how Configuration Manager and the Intune extensions can help you manage your troops and arm them with the correct tools for battle. Learn how Intune and System Center Configuration Manager make it easy to manage all your Windows, Windows Phone 8, iOS, and Android devices with a single pane of glass. We'll walk through how to easily configure devices for your users by pushing Wi-Fi, VPN, certificate, and email profiles as soon as they're enrolled. We'll cover configuration and management of device settings; provisioning profiles for email, VPN, and Wi-Fi; and other native features that come through the standard Intune extensions.
Next to Kenny and myself there is a third SCUG.be member presenting at IT/Dev Connections: Dieter Wijckmans is going to rock and roll in the Cloud & Datacenter track. Have a look at his sessions here.
Similar to last year the three of us will be using the #meetthebelgians hash tag during the event. Will you help us get this hash tag listed into the Twitter analytics again for this edition? Make sure to do so, and most of all: reach out if you see us hanging around – we are looking forward to meeting you!
Registrations for the event are still open!


It's the last day of 2014, and I am in a reflective mood as we prepare to leave for Morocco in exactly two weeks. My brain space around our upcoming departure vacillates from excitement to fear every six-to-eight minutes. At this moment I am excited, but by the time I am finished writing this post I may have moved into fear-mode.
Thomas, on the other hand, seems much more settled around all the upcoming changes. While I have spent way too much time thinking about how best to pack for the move (two pairs of pajama bottoms or three? Three boxes of tampons or five? Do we really need a dozen calendars to give as gifts?), my husband seems quite unconcerned about what to bring. I at times envy his seemingly laissez faire attitude around leaving the United States for two years (and now I've moved into a more fearful head-space. But don't worry, I should be back to excitement in just a few minutes.).
Since our return from Europe we have been part of lots of gatherings with friends and family. We went to Vancouver Island for stretch of days in mid-November, followed by a weekend in Bellingham, and it was a very rich week of visiting people we love. Kahlil came to Seattle from WSU for both Thanksgiving break and winter break, and it's been great to have time with him. My amazing aunt, Ruth Ann, also came to visit and we had an excellent time sharing both past family stories and considering what the future may hold for all of us. Truly, the mish-mash Hanukkah-Christmas holidays were overall excellent. Amen to that.
This weekend my mother and I will be in Victoria, and I feel very grateful to have the chance for one last visit with my Dad and others before departing. Next week includes many planned dinner gatherings with people in Seattle, including a (low key) birthday party for Thomas on the 8th, and a final Shabbos meal on Friday the 9th. We then depart for Philadelphia on Sunday the 11th, where all the Peace Corps trainees (we are not officially volunteers until after our training period in Morocco) meet for a day of orientation before our flight to Casablanca on January 13th. I suspect our next blog post will be written from Morocco (and I am back to feeling excited!!).
I share the varying emotional changes. You will be so missed and I am so excited by what lies ahead for the two of you. Rest assured we will stay in close touch and your beloved Ginger will get as much love as she can absorb…and will still miss you!
Bon Voyage and all that!
Stay excited! Really enjoy reading your posts.
Thanks, Chris! Hope life is well with you, and wishing you a very happy New Year!


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Q: getting a mouseenter event from a still mouse entering an animated element I'm writing a image carousel and due to some class adding/removing my css pointer as well as my mouseenter event don't seem to work properly.
$("img", ":not(.active)").on("click", function() {
  var $this = $(this);

  $("img").removeClass("active");
  $this.addClass("active");

  goto($this.index());
});
$("img").on("mouseenter", function() {
    console.log("silence");
});
function goto(i) {
  $(".images").animate({
    left: 55-i*310
  });
}

http://jsfiddle.net/rnfkqq6s/3/
please take a look at the fiddle and watch the console. when the mouse doesn't move while clicking, the mouseenter sometimes isn't beeing triggered. the same thing with the cursor. what am I doing wrong here?

A: This issue relates to a known bug:
See similar:
Getting the browser cursor from "wait" to "auto" without the user moving the mouse
The bug report:
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=26723#c87

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The Nomadic Proletariat: An Interview with Alain Badiou
Thomas Nail	Uncategorized	 April 25, 2019 3 Minutes
TRANSLATED AND CONDUCTED BY THOMAS NAIL
The Centrality of the Migrant
Thomas Nail: The sans-papiers are perhaps the single most cited example of a contemporary political event in all of your work. You say in De quoi Sarkozy est-il le nom? that their struggle "defines what is most important in politics today." Why do the sans-papiers occupy such a privileged position in your work—and in contemporary politics?
Alain Badiou: My position is classical: Marx already considered the "late-arriving" proletarians who came from the countryside and who were not yet integrated into the logic of wages to be the "hard core" of the workers' revolts in the big cities. It must also be remembered that these proletarians were also migrants (from the countryside to the cities) and that they were also undocumented migrants [sans-papiers]. Indeed, the right to remain in the city was subordinated to a document, the "worker's booklet," without which you could be sent home. Imperialist logic has only served to extend this attitude of police control, precarity, and permanent suspicion to proletarians coming from more remote countrysides of Africa, Asia, and others.This has in fact only internationalized the status of the proletariat in imperialist metropolises. Hence, the firm support for undocumented migrants [sans-papiers] is a natural and fundamental factor in the large-scale organization of the entire "nomadic" proletariat today.
L'Organisation Politique
TN: According to La Distance Politique, L'Organisation politique was created in 1983 and published its political writings from 1983 to 1991 in the journal Le Per- roquet. From 1992 to 1999 their writings were published in La Distance Politique.Where were the group's writings published from 1999 to 2007? How would you characterize the group's activity and writings during this time?
AB: The Organisation politique followed the more openly Maoist organization created in 1970 called the "UCFml" [Union des communistes de France marxiste-léniniste], Marxist-Leninist Union of Communists of France.The general inspiration that required the change of name was that the reference to Maoism and Marxism-Leninism was undoubtedly too classical on the one hand, too shared with dogmatic groups, and on the other, it did not place enough emphasis on our own properly political novelty, in particular the fact that our aim was no longer to quickly build a Party to"represent"the working class. But as far as I am concerned, I have always considered there to be a continuity of political practice between the two and believe that the change of name was not essential.
The Breakup
TN: Why did the group break up in 2007?
AB: In 2007 there was no longer sufficient unity and centralized political
labor on a scale large enough to maintain a national organization. Personally, as far as I am concerned, I would say that the action of the Organisation politique, in any case since the 2000s, had gradually become more and more limited: In fact, it existed practically only in the workers' hostels of undocumented African workers. The living organization was in fact the one that had the name "the organization of the undocumented workers of the hostels and the political organization." But "political organization" in this case no longer meant much. There have been four attempts to remedy this state of affairs. The first was to extend the organization to all hostels, perhaps on a national scale, which would have been a considerable extension. The second was to open political schools in the hostels. The third, to actively take over mass production in the factories. The fourth, and in my opinion the most important,was to create a"Council"of the Organisation politique and the militant workers who had demonstrated their great qualities as organizers and bearers of new ideas, and together create a new political direction truly anchored in the nomadic proletariat. I participated very actively in these attempts. But I also had to admit, against their success, some doubts about a certain inertia that I was not in a position to overcome. Eventually, I felt like the Organisation politique had become a specialized association of hostels and undocumented workers, and as such it was no longer "political." This is because a political organization is an organization that is capable of holding, simultaneously, multiple processes among very different political situations.
Contemporary Analysis
TN: What has changed in your analysis of the sans-papiers since your work with them from 1996 to 1999? How would you compare those events to what is hap- pening today with other non-status migrant justice movements in North America and Europe more broadly?
Read the rest of the interview here.
Philosophy Today published whole special issue on Alain Badiou's work, edited by Elisabeth Paquette, Amrit Mandzak-Heer, Dhruv Jain, "Critical Engagements With Alain Badiou" here.
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Surveys of military veterans have shown that more than a third report having had a near-death experience (NDE). And yet many of them don't even know that NDEs are a recognized phenomenon, and so they often don't mention their experience to others, and when they do it is often misdiagnosed as PTSD or mental illness.
In response to this sad situation, Diane Corcoran – a past President of the International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS), and a veteran herself – has worked to raise awareness of NDEs with both veterans and care-givers. In recent years she had the idea to create a video to train veterans and their care providers about NDEs and their aftereffects.
I came to believe that many soldiers were having near-death experiences as bombs exploded and gunfire nearly took their lives. But many were uncomfortable sharing what happened, and felt they had no one to talk to. But I knew they needed an outlet – someone to share their life-transforming experience with, who wouldn't be dismissive or think they were crazy.
While clinicians in most healthcare environments may have little knowledge of the NDE and its consequence, additional barriers exist in the military setting because the NDE and its consequences run counter to military culture.
There are many issues, and one of them relates to privacy and fear of disclosing the NDE to military commanders or health care providers. You may be asked to talk to your psychiatrist or psychologist in strict confidentiality, yet they may interpret the NDE as a mental health issue and put that into your record. When providers do not know about NDEs, they may think you have a mental illness and treat it with medication or other inappropriate intervention.
Commanders have great authority in the military and if you go to your commander and say, I need to talk to you privately about this experience I had, that could be the end of your career. It's a culture in which consequences can happen quickly, and because of a lack of knowledge about NDEs, it may end a soldier's career. One soldier told me that the minute he told his nurse about his experience, he was sedated for three days and then sent to see a psychiatrist immediately. They thought he was crazy. In fact, people with NDEs are not mentally ill, but may benefit from supportive counseling to help them integrate the experience. Currently, providers are not prepared to offer such counseling.
The military depends on structure and discipline, and this often runs counter to common aftereffects of NDEs. Common effects include changed attitudes and beliefs, such as a philosophy of nonviolence, extreme appreciation of nature, high empathy and affection, and different priorities for time management.
The aftereffects of an NDE aren't always conducive to staying in the military, as NDErs may become altruistic and less rule based. The commander of a unit, a West Point graduate with a lot of experience, told me that since his NDE, he was having trouble with command and discipline issues.
All I really want to do is put my arm around these young soldiers, and say we're going to work it out. And I have to tell them that it may not work out for them in the military, so they may need to find another place that will value their change in attitude.


Guilty convictions may result in a range of penalties, typically including fines, creative sentencing orders, forfeitures, probation or jail time. Court fines are directed to government's Consolidated Revenue Fund. Under environmental statutes, creative sentencing orders are typically directed to organizations such as the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation; these organizations help remedy damage and improve the environment in the area impacted by the non-compliant activity.
Use the drop-down windows below to learn more about the boards and courts that are most applicable to environmental cases. While the Environmental Appeal Board is not part of the court system, it is included here as it plays a key role in B.C.'s natural resource compliance and enforcement framework. Where an appeal is heard depends on the type of enforcement action and the level of court where the trial was held.
The Environmental Appeal Board (EAB) is an independent agency which hears appeals from certain decisions made by government officials related to environmental issues. These decisions include water licenses, administrative penalties, contaminated site remediation orders, pesticide permits and the cancellation of hunting licenses. The EAB provides a quasi-judicial access point for the public and industry to appeal certain government decisions. A party dissatisfied with a decision or order of the Environmental Appeal Board may apply to the B.C. Supreme Court for a judicial review of the decision. The EAB provides a summaries of judicial reviews of EAB decisions online here.
The Provincial Court is the first level of trial court in British Columbia and hears criminal, criminal youth, family, child protection, small claims, and traffic cases. Over 95% of all criminal cases in the province are heard in Provincial Court. Sometimes a Provincial Court judge may make a decision that a litigant feels is wrong. In our justice system, the process for rectifying judicial errors is by way of appeal or judicial review to a higher court (the Supreme Court of B.C. or the B.C. Court of Appeal). Learn more about the processes of criminal cases here and Provincial Court appeals here.
The B.C. Supreme Court is the superior trial court for the province and hears both civil and criminal cases, as well as some appeals from the Provincial Court. A party may appeal a decision of the Supreme Court to the B.C. Court of Appeal.
The Court of Appeal is the highest court in the province. It hears appeals from the Supreme Court, from the Provincial Court on some criminal matters, and reviews and appeals from some administrative boards and tribunals.
The Federal Court is Canada's national trial court which hears and decides legal disputes arising in the federal domain, including claims against the Government of Canada, civil suits in federally-regulated areas and challenges to the decisions of federal tribunals. Learn more about Canada's judicial structure here.
The Federal Court of Appeal has jurisdiction to hear appeals from judgments of the Federal Court and the Tax Court of Canada. It also hears appeals pursuant to a variety of other federal legislation. The countrywide mission of the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal is intended to ensure that federal legislation is applied in a uniform and constant manner across the country, while taking into consideration the private law in the province or territory where the litigation arises. The appeals heard by the Federal Court of Appeal deal with issues stemming from complex, specialized and often innovative areas of law. Among other things, the Court has jurisdiction to hear disputes regarding tax law, maritime law, immigration law, Aboriginal law, prison law, social law, aeronautics, intellectual property and national security. It also oversees the largest administrative law caseload in Canada, as the court responsible for the judicial review of the federal administration.
The Supreme Court of Canada hears appeals from the decisions of the highest courts of final resort of the provinces and territories, as well as from the Federal Court of Appeal and the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada. The Supreme Court is a general court of appeal from all other Canadian courts of law. It, therefore, has jurisdiction over disputes in all areas of the law, including constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law and private law. The Court assures uniformity, consistency and correctness in the articulation, development and interpretation of legal principles throughout the Canadian judicial system.
Approximately 94% of court penalties issued under the Environmental Management Act were directed to organizations that help remedy damage and improve the environment in the area impacted by the non-compliant activity, such as the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation.


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module Nanoc
  module Core
    class Pattern
      include Nanoc::Core::ContractsSupport

      contract C::Any => self
      def self.from(obj)
        case obj
        when Nanoc::Core::StringPattern, Nanoc::Core::RegexpPattern
          obj
        when String
          Nanoc::Core::StringPattern.new(obj)
        when Regexp
          Nanoc::Core::RegexpPattern.new(obj)
        when Symbol
          Nanoc::Core::StringPattern.new(obj.to_s)
        else
          raise ArgumentError, "Do not know how to convert `#{obj.inspect}` into a Nanoc::Pattern"
        end
      end

      def initialize(_obj)
        raise NotImplementedError
      end

      def match?(_identifier)
        raise NotImplementedError
      end

      def captures(_identifier)
        raise NotImplementedError
      end
    end
  end
end

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Via Facebook/Twitter today, Gearbox announced a fun token of appreciation to veteran players. Saved data from the first Borderlands on a player's Xbox 360, PC, or PS3 will automatically be detected on Borderlands 2. Doing so will let players mix and match various skins and heads. The non-playable characters and enemy faces pictured include Sledge, Tannis, a Spiderant and a Hyperion Lance. The rewards seem to be cosmetic changes for the player to have fun with instead of giving any in-game advantage. It is also uncertain how to go about unlocking these features but we will keep you updated.


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Scientific Journal of Bee and Honey Formation Research
About SJBHFR
The Scientific Journal of Bee and Honey Formation Research(SJBHFR) ISSN is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of Bee and Honey Formation Research and related disciplines. The objective of this journal is to provide a veritable platform for scientists and researchers all over the world to promote, share, and discuss a variety of innovative ideas and developments in all aspects of Bee and Honey Formation Research.
The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published shortly after acceptance. All articles published in SJBHFR are peer-reviewed.
The Scientific Journal of Bee and Honey Formation Research is published monthly (one volume per year) by Advanced Scholars Journals.
Types of contribution
Regular articles: These should describe new and carefully confirmed findings, and experimental procedures should be given in sufficient detail for others to verify the work. The length of a full paper should be the minimum required to describe and interpret the work clearly.
Short Communications: A short Communication is suitable for recording the results of complete small investigations or giving details of new models or hypotheses, innovative methods, techniques or apparatus. The style of main sections need not conform to that of full-length papers. Short communications are 2 to 4 printed pages (about 6 to 12 manuscript pages) in length.
Reviews: Submissions of reviews and perspectives covering topics of current interest are welcome and encouraged. Reviews should be concise and no longer than 4-6 printed pages (about 12 to 18 manuscript pages). Reviews manuscripts are also peer-reviewed.
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Advanced Journal Of Surgical Pathology
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Q: Do properties default to nil? If i don't use an ivar for properties, but do this:
@interface someClass : NSObject

@property (nonatomic, retain) NSArray * someArray;

@end

@implementation someClass

@synthesize someArray = _someArray;

- (void) someMethod
{
    if( self.someArray == nil ){
        // True on the first call?
    }
}

@end

The first time I check self.someArray it returns nil, as does _someArray, but is this guaranteed? I read only that ivars are guaranteed to be nil, and since I don't declare a ivar (_someArray is not an ivar), I am not sure if it will be nil everywhere and every time.

A: It's always nil. Objective-C initialises all the variables in a class to nil when it is allocated. Synthesised ivars follow the same rules.

A: Properties are backed by instance variables if they are synthesized automatically -- so yes, by default such properties will return nil.

A: Yes, all properties, ivars and static variables have always been defined to be initialized to nil. Now with ARC this carries over to __strong stack variables (__strong being the default for all object pointers).


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Cracking the Code is a new report from KPMG, global business psychologist firm YSC and the 30% Club on gender intelligent approaches to developing corporate leaders. The findings dispel some of the common gender diversity myths in the workplace. Their report highlights three key things that organisations could focus on to adopt a more gender intelligent approach to improving their talent pipeline health.


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Public Release: 5-Nov-2013
Torture permanently damages normal perception of pain
Tel Aviv University researchers study the long-term effects of torture on the human pain system
American Friends of Tel Aviv University
Israeli soldiers captured during the 1973 Yom Kippur War were subjected to brutal torture in Egypt and Syria. Held alone in tiny, filthy spaces for weeks or months, sometimes handcuffed and blindfolded, they suffered severe beatings, burns, electric shocks, starvation, and worse. And rather than receiving treatment, additional torture was inflicted on existing wounds.
Forty years later, research by Prof. Ruth Defrin of the Department of Physical Therapy in the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University shows that the ex-prisoners of war (POWs), continue to suffer from dysfunctional pain perception and regulation, likely as a result of their torture. The study -- conducted in collaboration with Prof. Zahava Solomon and Prof. Karni Ginzburg of TAU's Bob Shapell School of Social Work and Prof. Mario Mikulincer of the School of Psychology at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya -- was published in the European Journal of Pain.
"The human body's pain system can either inhibit or excite pain. It's two sides of the same coin," says Prof. Defrin. "Usually, when it does more of one, it does less of the other. But in Israeli ex-POWs, torture appears to have caused dysfunction in both directions. Our findings emphasize that tissue damage can have long-term systemic effects and needs to be treated immediately."
A painful legacy
The study focused on 104 combat veterans of the Yom Kippur War. Sixty of the men were taken prisoner during the war, and 44 of them were not. In the study, all were put through a battery of psychophysical pain tests -- applying a heating device to one arm, submerging the other arm in a hot water bath, and pressing a nylon fiber into a middle finger. They also filled out psychological questionnaires.
The ex-POWs exhibited diminished pain inhibition (the degree to which the body eases one pain in response to another) and heightened pain excitation (the degree to which repeated exposure to the same sensation heightens the resulting pain). Based on these novel findings, the researchers conclude that the torture survivors' bodies now regulate pain in a dysfunctional way.
It is not entirely clear whether the dysfunction is the result of years of chronic pain or of the original torture itself. But the ex-POWs exhibited worse pain regulation than the non-POW chronic pain sufferers in the study. And a statistical analysis of the test data also suggested that being tortured had a direct effect on their ability to regulate pain.
The researchers say non-physical torture may have also contributed to the ex-POWs' chronic pain. Among other forms of oppression and humiliation, the ex-POWs were not allowed to use the toilet, cursed at and threatened, told demoralizing misinformation about their loved ones, and exposed to mock executions. In the later stages of captivity, most of the POWs were transferred to a group cell, where social isolation was replaced by intense friction, crowding, and loss of privacy.
"We think psychological torture also affects the physiological pain system," says Prof. Defrin. "We still have to fully analyze the data, but preliminary analysis suggests there is a connection."
American Friends of Tel Aviv University supports Israel's leading, most comprehensive and most sought-after center of higher learning, Tel Aviv University (TAU). Rooted in a pan-disciplinary approach to education, TAU is internationally recognized for the scope and groundbreaking nature of its research and scholarship -- attracting world-class faculty and consistently producing cutting-edge work with profound implications for the future. TAU is independently ranked 116th among the world's top universities and #1 in Israel. It joins a handful of elite international universities that rank among the best producers of successful startups.
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European Journal of Pain
PERCEPTION/AWARENESS
REHABILITATION/PROSTHETICS/PLASTIC SURGERY
SOCIAL/BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=19379


DirectoryApp is a business directory script written in PHP. With this script you can build "Yellow Pages" type of sites, city guides, local businesses classifieds and so on. This script is continuously being developed and updated.


Fashion is the word on everyone's lips this week, with VAMFF taking Melbourne by storm.
With plenty of streetstyle inspo coming from the FROW, make that inspiration your reality with Parisian cool kids, Zadig and Voltaire and Melbourne tastemaker and stylist, Elaine Marshall. No biggie, but Elaine has styled the likes of Nadia Bartel, Rachael Finch and Natalie Roser… okay that's MAJOR, permission to start fangirling now!
Visit Elaine next week at Zadig and Voltaire's VIP event. She'll be on hand to give you a complete style overhaul, help you pick out the Autumn accessory of your dreams, and anything else in-between. The VIP event will coincide with Zadig and Voltaire's latest drop, so you'll have that to drool over as well.
Other activities on the night include bubbly on arrival and some ahh-mazing offers – the first 25 purchasers receive a gift bag with a full-sized perfume and a MASSIVE $1000 wardrobe voucher will be won on the evening.
Don't miss out – this is the style makeover you been waiting for.
Be there or be square! Thursday, 15 March at 6pm, located on Ground Floor.


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Sex, Tetris, and Charlie Chaplin: The Alexey Pajitnov interview
We sit down with the inventor of Tetris
By Colin Campbell@ColinCampbellx Jun 17, 2019, 12:30pm EDT
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Part of Polygon's best stories and videos of 2019
Alexey Pajitnov hands me a condom. It's still in its shiny wrapper, and the wrapper is festooned with Tetris-related images.
I'm interviewing Pajitnov, the 63-year-old inventor of Tetris, in a fancy hotel lobby in the general vicinity of E3. He says the condom "is contraband," and then he smiles. It's obviously a joke, so I wait for the punchline.
Part of the reason for this interview is that Tetris is (a) celebrating its 35th anniversary, and (b) making inroads into the world of branded goods. A deal has been done for Tetris-branded sports shoes. I'm told Tetris-branded makeup is in the works.
In his heavy Russian accent, Pajitnov says the condom is a perfect brand partner for Tetris, and here's the punchline: "It's a really big reason for the attractiveness [of Tetris]. The big piece goes in, and you feel really great. Hahahaha."
Well, OK, it's not exactly comedy gold, but I find myself laughing nonetheless. Pajitnov's younger associate quickly tells me that the joke is "off the record." I smile while thinking, "Yeah, right."
So Pajitnov and I start talking about Tetris. And because I've heard the tale of how he made Tetris while living and working in the Soviet Union, and I'm vaguely aware of all the labyrinthine business deals and lawsuits that followed, and the fairy-tale ending of the Nintendo deal in which the game was bundled with the Game Boy, and all that, I'm determined not to go down that route. Instead …
… I get into a disagreement with Pajitnov about Charlie Chaplin
It's not a serious disagreement. I put it to Pajitnov that no single artist has generated more collective entertainment hours among the mass of humankind than himself. I mean, how long, dear reader, have you spent playing Tetris? And do you know many people who haven't played it?
It's just an idea I was toying with on the way to the interview, and I'm curious if it's something he's thought about.
He looks vaguely affronted. "I think Charles Chaplin provided the world with more hours of entertainment," he says, adding that Chaplin's body of work amounts to maybe 60 hours of film, and that in the heyday of silent movies, cinema goers would watch his pictures over and over again. It turns out Pajitnov is a huge Charlie Chaplin fan.
He reels off the names of some of his favorite movies, although it takes him a moment to translate the titles back to English from the Russian in which he knows them best.
I'd thought of Chaplin before I asked the question, as well as maybe Michael Jackson or some other pop star. I'm not saying Pajitnov's Tetris is the right answer, but to bolster the argument, I make the point that Chaplin created his movies with teams of helpers, as do most big pop stars who operate with producers and backing musicians and such. Pajitnov made Tetris entirely on his own, without any help from corporations or underlings.
"Well, I did the game on my own," he allows. "It was just something I made for fun and then I shared it with my friends and it was like a fire, on every single PC. But it wasn't a product.
"In order to maintain the brand, to make it spread out there, thousands of people worked on it."
He means the marketing and manufacturing of the game. I find this to be thin reasoning, but I let it pass, because I want to foist on him …
… My pet theory about Tetris and communism
… which I've been nurturing for years. Here's the pitch: All creative works are influenced by the cultural milieu of their makers, by their upbringing, prejudices, politics, and so on. Tetris might seem like a completely apolitical work of abstractions, but isn't it possible — and here is where I put the notion to Pajitnov — that this idea of very different individuals (i.e. shapes) fitting together to complete a harmonious whole is at the heart of a planned society, and is therefore an expression of the communist ideal?
(Look, I know it's a stretch, but it's mine.)
He shoots me down with pitiless logic.
"That's the first time I've heard this concept," he says. "First of all, it's not just cooperative stuff that belongs to communism. In lots of circumstances people have to plan and work together and make something lovely out of the chaos. I don't think that these ideas you have about communist stuff is right. Usually, [Soviet communists] focused on making sacrifices for the future."
This is an excellent point and I am duly chastened. Pajitnov goes on to talk about what it is that makes Tetris so popular, and why it's still generating hits with fantastic games like Tetris Effect and Tetris 99.
"In lots of games you go in and destroy things [mimics shooting action]," he says. "In Tetris you have an illusion that you're building something, all the time. It's constructive and positive and it makes you feel smart.
"Tetris is something that makes people have a small smile. They remember the hours and hours that they played, when they should have been preparing for their college exams, or something. But they were very happy hours, so when they think about Tetris it makes them in a good mood."
I ask, are you rich?
"Excuse me?" he responds.
"I mean, are you wealthy?" It's a rude question, but there's no real way to get around it. There's a general sense, I believe, that Pajitnov did not yield as much of the financial benefits of Tetris' success as perhaps he ought to, partly because the game "belonged" to his employer, the Soviet state.
Tetris outlasted the Soviet Union, and as a partner in The Tetris Company, he has owned a share of the property since the mid-1990s. Tetris is represented by an agent that sells rights to companies like Sega (Puyo Puyo Tetris), Nintendo (Tetris 99), and Electronic Arts (Tetris' mobile rights).
"I don't know what this means," he replies. "I don't read the American magazines that describe the lives of wealthy men. So I honestly don't know. I own my house [in Seattle]. My family doesn't need anything. I have my business and I stay in nice hotels." He shrugs.
He later tells me that he also owns an apartment in Moscow, where he stays each spring. He believes that the deal he did with his employer, handing over rights to Tetris for the first 10 years of its existence, was "the right thing to do" because he had used their equipment to code the game. It was also, he says, "a very uncertain time in the Soviet Union." In no way does he seem like a man who is dissatisfied with his lot in life.
And yet …
I can't stop myself from going back to this question of Charlie Chaplin and Michael Jackson and cumulative human history entertainment hours. I make the point that we are sitting in a large hotel bar, with maybe a hundred people around, and yet the only person who recognized him, when he entered the room, is me.
The idea that Chaplin or Jackson could wander into a hotel room during their lifetimes and be left alone is absurd. I'm interested in how he feels about bringing a thing like Tetris into the world, and yet being unrecognized, unfamous.
"I am kind of recognizable in Russia," he says. "They try to raise up their heroes or their national … whatever .... so they arrange for lots of interviews on TV. So people recognize me in the professional world in Moscow. They come to shake hands and blah blah blah. That's the only time I feel recognition."
He says he can walk the aisles of E3 without being recognized. "The people I worked with over the years are probably out of the industry," he laughs. "I am too old."
So, Tetris pieces are really people
I share with him a notion that Tetris pieces (aka Tetrominoes) represent specific kinds of human personalities. I think of the long, straight one as an elegant person who is good in a crisis, but is a little vain. The square one is a bit of a bruiser, not too bright, but useful in the right situation. The S and Z shapes are needy, but have a high level of empathy. The T is a fun-loving party-beast who sometimes shows up at your house at inappropriate times.
I'm slightly surprised when he agrees with this notion.
"Every piece has a personality," he says. "The square guy is very rude and stupid, because it doesn't rotate. My favorite is the J piece because it can be used in many different ways. There was a time when I tried to write a story based on all the pieces, but it didn't come to anything. But maybe in the future. Tetris is a never-ending story, so there will never be a moment when a new project isn't happening somewhere."
This reminds me to ask him about the Tetris movie that's supposed to be in development. He says it's "postponed" while unspecified financial matters are sorted out, but he hopes to have some news in the near future.
I ask him about his gaming habits. He says he's working on a long-term project, a puzzle game, that's as much a hobby as a professional endeavor. He also spends a lot of time playing puzzle games.
"I played Tetris 99. It's a very nice game and I really enjoy it," he says. "But I didn't play it much. My son gave me the Nintendo [Switch] to play it, but then he grabbed it back from me, so I hope to get it soon again." He laughs and then he beams and tells me he's just become a grandfather.
We're beginning to wrap up, so I return again to Charlie Chaplin, whose films are still watched and beloved, a century after they were made. I ask: Will people still be playing Tetris in a hundred years' time?
"Yes," he says. "I'm pretty sure they will. We will see so many changes in software and hardware, but the human brain will stay the same. Human nature doesn't change. There are still lots of people who adore chess, which is a thousand-year-old game. It touches something in our pleasure center which we don't really understand. There's no answer why this happens, but it's just the pleasure of something that takes up all your attention, even if it's for a short period of time."
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Supplemental Funds Would Support Disaster Relief Activities Carried Out Directly By FEMA And Other Federal Agencies. These activities respond to the immediate needs of evacuees, continue response and recovery, and begin repairs urgently needed by local government facilities such as schools and other public buildings and utilities. Specific actions and services to be funded by this request include ongoing food, shelter, and medical care for evacuees.
Shelter: Evacuees in need will be provided temporary housing or funds for hotels or apartments.
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Q: Angular unable to load view after url change I am trying to learn angularjs.I wan't to share data between two controllers of two different pages. After googling came to know about services and created one service. From one page I am able to call my rest service and able to get data. After I am trying to redirect to different page. URL is changing but page is not loaded. Stuck here. Please find the code below. Anybody can help me where I am doing wrong?
data.html
<!DOCTYPE html>

<base href="/">

<form>
    <input type="text" name="Name" ng-model="user.userName"> Name

    <input type="text" name="password"  ng-model="user.password"> Password

      <button type="submit" ng-click="getUser(user)" >Submit</button>
    </form>

   data2.html
<!DOCTYPE html>

<base href="/">

<form>
    <input type="text" name="Name" ng-model="user.userName"> Name

    <input type="text" name="password"  ng-model="user.password"> Password

      <button type="submit" ng-click="shareUser()" >Submit</button>
</form>

app.js

var App = angular.module('myApp',['ngRoute','ngResource']);

App.config(['$routeProvider',
   function (
    $routeProvider
) {
      $routeProvider.
          when('/home', {
              templateUrl: 'data.html',
            controller: 'UserController'
          }).
          when('/welcome', {
             templateUrl: '/data2.html',
            controller: 'UserController2'
          }).
          otherwise({
              redirectTo: '/home'
          });
}]);

    usercontroller.js

 App.controller('UserController', ['$scope', 'UserService', '$window',       function($scope, UserService,$window,$location) {
   alert("inside user controller");
  var self = this;
  $scope.user={};
  $scope.user.userName="murali";
  $scope.user.password="murali123";

  $scope.getUser = function(user){
   alert("inside function");
         UserService.getUser(user).then(function(data){
      alert("data::"+JSON.stringify(data.userName));
     $window.location.href ='/welcome';
 });
      };

}]);

    App.controller('UserController2', ['$scope', 'UserService',  function($scope, UserService) {
   alert("inside user controller");

  $scope.user={};

 $scope.findUser = function(){
   alert("inside function");
        $scope.user = UserService.findUser();
        alert("userName::"+$scope.user.userName);

      };

 }]);

userservice.js

  App.factory('UserService', ['$http', '$q', function($http, $q){
  var user = {};
  return {

     getUser : function(user){
                return $http.post('http://localhost:8080/user/login',  angular.toJson(user))
                        .then(
                                function(response){
                                    alert(JSON.stringify(response.data));
                                    user=response.data;
                                    return response.data;
                                },
                                function(errResponse){
                                    console.error('Error while getting  response');
                                    return $q.reject(errResponse);
                                }
                        );
        },

        shareUser : function(){
            return user;
        }

         };
 }]);

A: If you redirect the entire page is reloaded and the service is created from 0, no data is saved, unless you store it in cookie or local/session storage. But I see you are using angular-route, so, you can still get it done.
First, when using angular-route, the views does not need to be a full html doc and instead just a piece of it. Example:
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>

    <base href="/">

        <ng-view></ng-view>

Please, note the <ng-view></ng-view> element, it is required by angular-route and is where the views will be loaded.
data.html
<form>
    <input type="text" name="Name" ng-model="user.userName"> Name

    <input type="text" name="password"  ng-model="user.password"> Password

    <button type="submit" ng-click="getUser(user)" >Submit</button>
</form>

data2.html
<form>
    <input type="text" name="Name" ng-model="user.userName"> Name

    <input type="text" name="password"  ng-model="user.password"> Password

    <button type="submit" ng-click="findUser()" >Submit</button>
</form>

Note that in data2.html I changed ng-click="shareUser()" to ng-click="findUser()" as UserController2 does not have a shareUser function.
Now, in UserController instead of using window.location.href ='/welcome'; use $location.path('/welcome');, this is what you need to use to navigate without reloading the entire page, angular-route will do the magic. You will need to add the $location service as a dependency.
In UserController2, change UserService.findUser(); to UserService.shareUser(); because UserService does not have a findUser function, and I think shareUser is what you are trying to use.
Also, take a look again to the $routeProvider configuration, '/data2.html' might be pointing to the wrong location.
And you are ready, reload the page and happy coding.


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I was listening to Dan Harris and his co-author Jeff Warren (Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics) on Joe Rogan's podcast the other day and they were discussing meditation I have my own subjective experiences with the benefits of meditation on my mental health, which, I'll try to briefly summarize here: Developing a practice of meditation involves training the mind to pay attention to thoughts as they arise in consciousness. By doing that you find that when it comes to anxiety and depression, often there's no "there" there. In other words, anxiety can be a reaction to circumstances that don't have an objective basis in reality. If you pay attention to the anxious feeling, and examine it, you'll say "oh, it's not based on facts, therefore, I don't need to let it consume me." And you let it go. As you develop a sustained practice of meditating and noticing thoughts as they arise "on the cushion," you'll come to see that even when you aren't meditating you're starting to notice thoughts and observe them as you move through the world. There's a thrill realizing that you're able to respond to thoughts that arise, particularly if your previous experience has been that you react to them without observing them for what they are.
At about the 1 hour 56 minute mark (yes, it's a long, deep discussion of meditation) Rogan asked about the role of medication as it relates to using meditation to manage the mind. As I understood his line of inquiry he was asking whether or not pharmaceuticals can interfere with the authenticity of the experiences you can have with meditation. I think Rogan, from what I know about him, is skeptical of the efficacy of medication (which I think is understandable given some of the issues with Big Pharma) and advocates for/prefers more natural/organic approaches. I don't think he's advocating for people to avoid medication for mental health, he's kicking the tires on the proposition.
This whole conversation seems relevant right now because I've become an evangelist for meditation and it's ability to help me with my mental health. But I'm convinced of the ability of the right pharmaceuticals taken under the supervision of a medical professional to help people who struggle with mental health. I understand why there's skepticism because I've struggled with finding the right medication and the right dosage before I got it right (again, working with a mental health professional). Warren, who is a meditation teacher with more practice hours than most people, does a great job explaining his experience with mania (he's recently been diagnosed with a form of bipolar disorder) and how hard it is to suffer with a mental health condition, and that he is considering medication to treat it. It's not an either/or situation.
At the beginning of this part of the podcast Harris described himself as a maximalist when it comes to treating your mental health. I couldn't agree more. Use every tool available to you *that works*. Explore what works for you and what doesn't. Every arrow in the quiver.
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Clemens Persson Grubbenhielm tidigare Grubb, född 1620 i Normlösa församling, Östergötland, död 3 oktober 1675 i Wollin, var en svensk präst.

Biografi
Clemens Grubbenhielm föddes 1620 på Normlösa prästgård i Normlösa församling. Han var son till kyrkoherden Petrus Clementis och Ingrid Månsdotter Gylle. Grubbenhielm blev 1641 fänrik vid överste Volckmans tyska regemente till fots och 1642 löjtnant vid nämnda regemente. Han blev 1651 kapten vid regementet och 1654 kapten vid livgardet. Den 26 maj 1656 blev han major vid ångermanländska regemente och 9 februari 1657 överstelöjtnant vid nämnda regemente. Grubbenhielm blev senare överstelöjtnant vid koloniregementet och 1660 kommendant i Demmin. Han adlades 20 juli 1662 till Grubbenhielm och introducerades 1664 som nummer 708. Grubbenhielm fick överstes titel 15 augusti 1667. Han tog avsked som kommendant 10 juli 1671 och blev 19 december 1671 överste vid skånska regementet till fots. År 1674 blev han kommendat i Wollin. Grubbenhielm avled 1675 vid stormningen av Wollin.

Familj
Grubbenhielm gifte sig i Tyskland med Anna Barbara von Müller (död 1693). De fick tillsammans barnen fänriken Johan Peter Simon Grubbenhielm (död 1698), överstelöjtnanten Gustaf Grubbenhielm (1666–1732) och Elisabet Regina Grubbenhielm (död 1696).

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Internships are an exciting part of your college career. They can help you determine which career paths (and perhaps even a new major) truly fit you. And they provide the hands-on, real-world experience and transferable skills that are critical to finding a job after you graduate.
Best of all, it's within your power to ensure you have an amazing internship experience—no matter what you're doing. To help guide you through the entire process, review this list of do's and don'ts to make sure you fully benefit from all of your hard work.
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Do complete an internship during your college career. In fact, try to get multiple internships to give you a better idea of what you might want to do as a career.
Do have a polished résumé that has been reviewed by your peers or your school's career center. This will ensure a professional-looking résumé.
Do use mock interviews to refine your skills. Many college career centers offer this service for free to their students.
Do write thank you e-mails and/or notes to all who interview you and assist you in your internship. This is often overlooked by many applicants, so you will certainly set yourself apart.
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Do remember that you are in a professional setting, and you will be treated as a professional. It is expected that you behave professionally at all times throughout your internship.
Do meet with your internship supervisor regularly. This will help you track your performance and work on areas that you need to improve.
Do get as much exposure in the organization as possible. Find your role and claim ownership of your projects. This will bring recognition to your work ethics and value.
Do find a mentor within the internship organization if you can. It doesn't have to be your immediate internship supervisor, as it's possible they will be very busy. Keep in mind that the best mentors won't just lead you; they will also inspire you.
Do keep in mind that it is your responsibility to leave your internship with new skills, accomplishments, and a better understanding of your field.
Do keep in touch with people who play a major role in your internship even if the experience was not the best. They will become part of your professional network that may be helpful in the future of your career.
Do update your résumé with accomplishments from your internship. Your résumé should be full of talking points that can be used in future interviews.
Last but not least, do enjoy your internship. At times, you may feel that all you are doing is grunt work, but keep at it and your hard work will eventually pay off.
These very simple things are often overlooked by students who do not realize how important a successful internship can be to their career.
Don't pass on an opportunity to gain experience beyond the official scope of your internship. It's good to be proactive and go above and beyond what is expected of you.
Don't be afraid to ask questions when things are unclear. To get the most out of your internship, you need to be open to learning new skills and techniques.
Don't forget to take advantage of all the benefits your college or university career center has to offer. It isn't uncommon for them to have leads on a multitude of opportunities.
Don't ever give up on your quest to obtain an internship. Use and exhaust all your options: college career center, family, friends, professors, cold-calling, LinkedIn connections, etc.
Don't burn any bridges. Even if your internship experience wasn't what you hoped it would be, the contacts that you make may come in handy in the future.
By following these internship guidelines, you will squeeze every last drop of benefit out of your internship experience and pave the way to a brighter future!
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Daniel Barenboim resigned from his role at the Berlin State Opera due to ill health
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Conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim has announced his resignation as music director of the Berlin Opera due to his declining health.
The 80-year-old has headed the Staatsoper since 1992 and in a statement expressed his gratitude for 30 years of collaboration, "which in every way, both musically and personally, has allowed us to fly," he said.
Barenboim, who is one of the most distinguished conductors in the world, was the music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchester de Paris and La Scala in Milan. But his lifelong love affair with German music and his intense interest in reunifying the country after the end of the Cold War led him to become passionately attached to Berlin.
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He is credited with reviving the Staatskapelle, an opera orchestra on the Unter den Linden boulevard in former East Berlin, which had sunk into relative oblivion under communism. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he took him to new artistic heights and international fame.
He has also earned a reputation as a staunch defender of culture in Germany, repeatedly battling politicians – most notably by opposing the threat of a merger between the Staatsoper in the east of Berlin and the Deutsche Oper in the west. Barenboim said the move "will not destroy the building … but the people inside", as well as the unique sound of the Staatskapelle developed under its former artistic director Richard Strauss.
He described the sound as "based on a set of values that are a bit out of fashion today … harmony [and] legato, over brilliance values … a more soulful and less athletic way of playing."
In an interview with the Guardian in 2000, the ardent Barenboim said that the politicians who supported the merger were accomplishing nothing more than a "Western takeover" of the Staatsoper, one of East Germany's most valuable cultural assets, in the same way that West Germany took over over companies, universities and almost every other aspect of the former German Democratic Republic. Ultimately, he won the fight.
He recently secured political support for the construction of Berlin's first recital venue, the Pierre Boulez Saal, which opened in 2017. He was also responsible for establishing the Barenboim-Said Akademie, a foundation aimed at promoting collaboration between aspiring musicians from the Middle East and North Africa, and an orchestra advocate for young Arab and Israeli musicians.
Barenboim, who was the first to hold both Israeli and Palestinian passports, has long been a vocal critic of Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
Born in Buenos Aires to a family of Jewish professional pianists, he made his first public appearance at the age of seven, made his first international appearance at the age of 10, and embarked on a glittering career, first as a pianist and then as a conductor, starting in London on the South Bank in 1968 year.
In 1966, he married the British cellist Jacqueline du Pré, one of the most famous relationships in the world of classical music. Du Pré died of multiple sclerosis in 1987 at the age of 42. In 1988, Barenboim married Russian pianist Elena Bashkirova.
Last October, Barenboim announced he was retiring from performing after being diagnosed with the neurological condition vasculitis, a term for rheumatic conditions that cause painful inflammation of the blood vessels.
In his Friday statement, he said: "Unfortunately, my health has deteriorated significantly over the last year. I can no longer achieve the level of performance that is rightfully required of a general music director. Therefore, please understand that I will resign from this function as of January 31, 2023." He said he had asked the Berlin senator for culture to release him from his contract.
In the past few months, Barenboim has been forced to cancel several shows, including a new production of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. At his request, the conductor Christian Thielemann took over his role.
In his statement, Barenboim expressed pride in what he and the Staatsoper had achieved. "I believe that the Staatsoper and I were very lucky to have met. I am especially happy and proud that the Staatskapelle has chosen me as its lifelong chief conductor. Over the years we have become a musical family and will always be so."
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Barenboim said he plans to continue conducting whenever possible. "Of course, as long as I live, I will remain closely associated with music and I am ready to conduct, especially with the Staatskapelle."
The Berlin Philharmonic announced that Barenboim will conduct three concerts as planned this weekend. Earlier this week, he conducted two sold-out New Year's concerts of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Staatsoper, which were also broadcast on screens to crowds outside the opera.
Matthias Schulz, director of the Staatsoper, said the house was "eternally grateful" to Barenboim and had "great respect" for his decisions.
"For more than 30 years, he has allowed his inexhaustible strength as a world-renowned artistic personality to benefit this house and its Staatskapelle Berlin," he said. "One can only imagine how difficult it must have been for Daniel Barenboim to take this step. We all wish him the best."
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Have you ever seen someone who was recently released from a long term in prison? Sometimes, although he no longer lives behind the iron doors of a cell, he still looks and act like a prisoner. He walks quickly with his head down so as to not gain unwanted attention. He makes his bed according to the rules of the penitentiary. He may go to bed at a strict and early hour every night. He often hides away his belongings. And he has a hard time making his own choices. He is used to the warden making his decisions and the guards and the telling him what to do. He hasn't learned that he is no longer a convict, he is a new person, a freed man. There are times when these men actually think they miss incarceration and they will commit crimes just to go back to the familiarity of confinement.
2 Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. 3 I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. 4 You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
It is not that circumcision is a sin, it isn't. Circumcision for the sake of obliging religious leaders is saying that we must do certain acts, obey laws to be saved. If we choose to obey the laws for our salvation then we are required to keep all of it. And that is impossible since the Temple in Jerusalem is no longer standing. Today we might change the requirement for circumcision to something else, for instance a requirement to abstain from alcohol.
There are people in our churches who preach that drinking is a sin, that Christians cannot drink. They set up lots of rules like that, no drinking, dancing, cussing, whatever. They teach that Christians must follow these rules and if they do not they are at the least not 'good Christians' and at the worst going to Hell because they are sinning. Sadly there are also people in our churches who claim grace, grace and more grace. They say we should not conform to the image of the church, we should drink as much as we like, cuss like sailors, and dance like strippers. They claim that as long as you call yourself Christian you should not have to change and that sin is fine because grace abounds! Slavery is slavery whether to laws or lawlessness.
You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? 8 This persuasion is not from him who calls you. 9 A little leaven leavens the whole lump. 10 I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. 11 But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been removed. 12 I wish those who unsettle you would emasculate themselves!
If Paul were saying, "Yes, here is the list of requirements for Christians and it includes a, b, and c (anything other than faith in Christ as Lord) then he would not be hated so much by the world. Satan would want him to keep up his work. But He was preaching the whole Gospel of Christ and so he was being persecuted. He even said that he wished the people teaching circumcision would cut off their own penises! Not very 'Christian' of him, right? The believers in the church need to get these liars out so that it is they and only they who will face the penalty of Hell and not the many who they would lead or the few who allowed it.
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 15 But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Did you know that for the believer there is no such thing as sin? (1 Corinthians 10:23). I mean nothing counts against us, we've already been forgiven and God has given us his grace. For the non-believer everything is sin, meaning nothing he does will earn him salvation (Titus 1:15). But the Spirit within us, God, He is love, He loves and He transforms us to love. We don't have to be concerned with this rule and that rule. If we live out loving one another and loving the people of this world, then we are living as the image of Christ.
Coming in to a church and trying to teach believers anything other than the sound doctrine of Jesus Christ is not love. I've seen both the legalists and the antinominalists criticizing believers for not being the image of who they believe the church ought to be. "Hmmm, don't you require the women to wear skirts and the men to wear suits? How disrespectful!" "Hmmm, don't you think that dressing so nicely will turn off people who don't have nice clothes? Shameful!" Those biting remarks are the beginning of the meal where the church is the main course and ends when only the carcass remains.
The love of God in us causes us to live in love of one another and love of our neighbor. That is the law of Christ. The flesh and the Spirit are opposed to one another. God imbued us with His Sprit, His character comes through and we please him by love. We are not slaves to law anymore, we live out His love, love for others not love for us. We exalt God, not ourselves. We glorify the Lord, not ourselves. We serve His will, not ours.
Believer, live free! You are not a slave to the law, you are not a slave to sin. You are free to love, free to be the image of Christ, and free to live as the radiating beautiful child of God He has made you to be. Choose to walk in the Spirit and crucify the flesh.


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Legendary Pilot Chuck Yeager Dies
Steve Trimble December 08, 2020
Charles E. "Chuck" Yeager, the first pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound, died on Dec. 7, according to an announcement on Twitter by his wife, Victoria Yeager. He was 97.
The news of Yeager's achievement on his ninth attempt to break the sound barrier in the Bell X-1 on Oct. 14, 1947, reverberated around the world two months later, when Aviation Week magazine broke the story.
But the famous flight served only as a moment in an illustrious career by the brash World War II ace, test pilot, commandant of the U.S. Air Force's astronaut training school and, in retirement, Northrop consultant.
The West Virginia native enlisted in the Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic three months before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in 1941.
A special program during the war allowed Yeager to enter flight training school despite lacking a college degree.
Assigned to the 357th Fighter Group alongside skilled dogfighters such as Leonard "Kit" Carson and Bud Anderson, Yeager amassed 10.5 credited kills despite a harrowing ordeal of being shot down over France and escaping capture by sneaking into neutral Spain.
His status as an ace pilot who had evaded capture allowed him to select his own assignment after the war, which brought him into the flight test community despite lacking a college education.
After proving the sound barrier could be broken in the rocket-powered X-1, Yeager spent most of the next 15 years testing a multitude of what are now remembered as the first two generations of U.S. and foreign fighter jets, ranging from captured MiGs to the NF-104.
In retirement, Yeager consulted as a pilot and marketing agent for a variety of aircraft manufacturers, and most famously as one of Northrop's demonstration pilots for the F-20 Tigershark.
Steve Trimble
Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington DC.
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It was not his ninth attempt to exceed M1. Despite Yeager's eager beaver attitude, they worked up gradually from previous max under Bell (about .84 True). The previous flight was M .99 plus true (that is it may have been M1, given the uncertainties of the instrumentation). But the October 14 flight was the first in the XS-1 program to try for M1. (I think my father flew with Yeager in '47 or 8 on a test flight -- in a troop glider!)
Ken Hardy
A aerospace Legion, a true pilot's pilot who had the instincts when it was a stick and rudder skill unlike todays computer controlled aircraft where the main skill is knowing how to program the flight director.
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A bilingual parent tries to keep a native tongue alive at home, a problem faced by many immigrants.
My daughter Bonoo Zahra, age 3, began preschool in August, and my worst fear about her education in the United States is coming true – English is invading her speech.
Before she began school, she exclusively spoke Farsi, our native Afghan language, but now she shuts the door to her room and prattles in English with her imaginary friends. She prefers to watch cartoons in English and wants me to read her books in English.
My husband, Naeem, and I decided our language at home would be Farsi so that our two daughters could learn to speak it. They would learn English in school and outside the home. After watching dozens of relatives' and friends' children in the US forget their native language, we are determined to teach Bonoo and Andisha, 5 months, the importance of bilingualism. But it's a battle many second-generation immigrant parents have lost to the pervasiveness of English.
Besides preserving cultural heritage, a second language can boost careers, sharpen analytical skills, and encourage communication with a world outside one's own.
The loss of language is a deep-seated fear among many immigrants. The US has been dubbed the graveyard of languages by some academics for pushing English and excluding other tongues. Currently about 55 million Americans speak a language besides English at home, but by the third generation, the home language tends to atrophy, according to various studies. American society supports a rhetoric of multiculturalism but not multilingualism, experts say.
While many of our parents wanted us to assimilate faster and speak English better, our generation – the 30-somethings – is focused on preservation. In the past few decades, the emergence of identity politics has encouraged ethnic Americans to hold on to more than English.
Olga Kagan, director of the Center for World Languages and National Heritage Language Resource Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, says more and more students of ethnic backgrounds want to learn their native language when they enter university. These students are identified as heritage language learners, and UCLA opened the resource center she runs in 2006 to meet that need.
"Now we are more aware of it. In the past, people didn't pay much attention to [learning their native tongue]," Ms. Kagan says.
Unlike Europe, where the younger generation in immigrant communities seems to be more successful at retaining its native tongue, children raised in America tend to only speak fluently in English. The Hispanic community, which represents the majority of bilingual Americans, may speak only English by the third generation. But the influx of new immigrants helps keep Spanish alive in the community.
The authors of the 2006 article "Linguistic Life Expectancies: Immigrant Language Retention in Southern California," in the Population and Development Review journal, contend that Hispanics in the Los Angeles area shift to English between the first and second generations and lose Spanish by the third.
Yet if children in other countries are capable of speaking at least two languages fluently, why can't American children do the same?
The US movement for monolingualism began after World War I when xenophobia developed against Germans in the US and caused many German-language schools to close, according to Lisa García Bedolla, head of the Center for Latino Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley. Ever since, the presumption is that a patriot should know only English.
This dominance has been institutionalized in the education system, she says. García Bedolla is the coauthor of the recent report "Classifying California's English Learners," which shows that bilingual kindergartners or bilingual children who go to public school for the first time are categorized as "English deficient." Many students who are proficient in English are wrongly placed in language-development classes. California has 1.6 million English learners, a quarter of the students in its public schools.
The presumption is, "If you speak Spanish [for example], you cannot speak English," García Bedolla says.
Vanessa Velazquez, my daughter Bonoo's preschool teacher, agrees with García Bedolla's assessment of the language hierarchy. Her preschool classes are 75 percent bilingual, she says. The majority speak Spanish but pick up English within a month. School policy says she can talk to Spanish-speaking children in Spanish but must encourage them to speak English in the classroom. She talks to her own children in Spanish inside and outside the home but says she has faced discrimination. A Caucasian customer at a mall told her she should only speak English in the US. "I said, 'It's a free country. I can speak what I want,' " she recalls.
In Europe, discrimination and the impulse to belong are equally present, so why does it seem as if ethnic communities speak more than one tongue? Magnus Marsden, a professor of social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London has been involved with the Afghan British community and says knowing more than one language is typical in London.
Being multilingual is part of European culture, but unlike in the US, it's more difficult to assimilate into the mainstream culture, so immigrants tend to keep to themselves.
Mr. Marsden disagrees and says immigrant communities do mingle with mainstream Britain but are still able to retain their native language.
Parents like me still think there's a way to retain language in the US despite the odds.
Anthony Henriquez, 8, and his brother Jason, 5, sit at the dinner table in their Fremont, Calif., home doing homework. The conversation is a mixture of Spanish and English. Doli Henriquez, the boys' mother, says she's proud that her kids speak Spanish well and do so without pressure. Anthony plops on the couch next to his mother and says he thinks in English but dreams in Spanish. "I feel comfortable in both languages and no one ever makes fun when I speak it at school. But it's the best when we go back to El Salvador," he says of the trips the family makes.
For the immigrants whose countries are not at war and who can afford it, frequent trips to their native land can be the answer. But it doesn't seem wise to return with my daughters to a war zone like Afghanistan.
I call a friend in Chicago, Shahir Ahang, another Afghan-American and the only one of my generation I know in the US whose children, Emad, 9, and Zaki, 6, retain Farsi.
Ahang says their friends call the couple "the language police," but he and his wife are making their children's lives difficult now so that they can communicate better in the future. He says language retention was a matter of preserving cultural identity at first, but now it's the usefulness of knowing more than one language that drives the couple.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, the rise of the Asian population has been accompanied by an increase in language-immersion schools. Zhenxi Dai and Yunfang Qian began their Chinese school from their home in 1998 with 10 to 20 students. They now have up to 100 students of Chinese descent enrolled.
Hieu Ta and Cindy Huang-Ta's children, Chloe, 8, and Alex, 6, were learning Mandarin in Ms. Qian's school before the family moved to Los Gatos, Calif. Ms. Huang-Ta has spoken to her children in Mandarin since they were born. Their first words were in Chinese, but as they get older, English is becoming more prominent. The couple researched more than a dozen Chinese schools before choosing Qian's, but their move to Los Gatos three months ago, where there are no daily Chinese schools, has distanced the kids further from Mandarin.
"It's a total struggle. We got a lot of advice from a lot of different people, and the vast majority said [teaching a second language] does not work," says Ta, a software engineer.
Their friends told them the best way for the children to retain Chinese is to live in China, and the couple may do that someday. But for now, Chloe and Alex go to a weekly Chinese school 10 minutes away.
As for my own family, we're going to follow Ahang's advice and continue to be the Farsi police.
One recent day in the car, Bonoo picked up a book and began to count the images she saw in Farsi, "Yak, do, se [one, two, three]." I grabbed my camera and pressed the video button. Ten years from now, if she refuses to speak Farsi to me, I can replay it and remember the moment when she could rattle off numbers in her mother tongue.